Re: backuppc version 2.1.0 broken after update in Debian unstable?

On 24 Aug 2004, Craig Barratt wrote:
> Wolfgang Balster writes:
>
>> About 14 days ago I installed backuppc within Debian unstable. It worked
>> perfectly. After an update yesterday, the appearance of the web interface 
>> changed (no sidebar on the left).
>
> The fact that the there is no sidebar probably means the CSS style
> file is not being loaded/served properly.  That probably is some
> misconfiguration of apache, or incorrect settings for
> $Conf{CgiImageDir} or $Conf{CgiImageDirURL.

[...]

> I'm not familiar with the Debian package setup.  Does it correctly
> update the main config.pl by adding $Conf{BlackoutPeriods}?

No. The upgrade asks if you want to replace your config.pl file with the
new (and blank/default) upstream version.

There is no automatic merge of the two, which is a bit of an annoyance.

If I cared more I would have filed a wishlist bug with the maintainer
since there is an existing script that does the upgrade, supplied by
you, as I understand things. :)

Anyway, to the OP: you need to manually merge your changes from
'/etc/backuppc/config.pl' to the file
'/etc/backuppc/config.pl.dpkg-dist', then rename the latter over the
former.

Regards,
        Daniel
-- 
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator,
but one can forget arithmetic.
        -- Alan J. Perlis, _Epigrams in Programming_ (September, 1982)



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